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CAA votes to revise courses By Cassie Buchman Administration Editor | @cjbuchman The Council on Academic Affairs voted in favor of revising two chemistry courses during their meeting Thursday. The classes are CHM 1410 General Chemistry II and CHM General Chemistry Laboratory II. The lab class is the companion to a threehour lecture. The CAA then entertained a motion to suspend the bylaws so the chemistry proposals could be acted on that day and added them to the agenda. Mark McGuire, department chair of the physical science department, spoke about the classes at the meeting. McGuire said there were not many changes taking place in the courses. In the middle of July, McGuire got a request from people who asked him to look at the chemistry classes. As part of the chemistry classes, they want a currently approved university course proposal. “You know, the department’s been making an effort in the last couple years to look at our current course proposals, and not all of ours are up on the electronic course library,” McGuire said.
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Glassman narrows budget gap, eliminates incentives Staff Report Eastern President David Glassman sent an email to all university employees Thursday announcing his decision to no longer explore the possibility of implementing retirement incentives this fall. Glassman said he indicated the university was looking into retirement incentives as an agreement between the administration and the University Professionals of Illinois. He said saving on university costs and narrowing the gap between anticipated revenues and predictable costs for the 2016 fiscal year would have been the purpose for the incentives. “It was my intent that if any retirement incentive program be implemented, all employee groups would be treated similarly in a commitment to fairness,” Glassman said. The final decision came after a realization of the risk that incentives might actually increase university spending. “I have decided not to offer a retirement incentive this year,” Glassman said. “I believe that my decision is in the best interest of the university.”
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Trey Turner, a member of The Icarus Account, performs “Chicago,” the band’s latest single during their show at 7th Street Underground on Thursday.
YouTube series starts strong By Luis Martinez Entertainment Editor | @DEN_News Twin brothers Ty and Trey Turner, 27, started playing music over 15 years ago, eventually forming The Icarus Account. The duo officially started up their band over eight years ago, and became quite serious only five years ago. The brothers performed as part of the University Board Mainstage YouTube artist series Thursday night at 7th Street Underground. “We started back before YouTube was really big, back in probably 2006 was when we first started out,” Ty said. ”We didn’t know that much about YouTube back then, there weren’t really great quality videos that we could record at that point in time.” Ty said they were able to find a studio to record and used MySpace originally to spread their music. “A couple of years later, when YouTube started coming around and when people started getting better cameras and stuff like that, then we started doing covers video on YouTube,” Ty said. This was the brothers’ first time performing here at Eastern, although they play in different venues all over the country. “We played all over,” Trey said. “Our last big tour, we did Charlotte, Philly, and Boston. We played the Grand Mercy Theater in New York, that was pretty cool.” Trey said they perform not only university shows, but they also perform at clubs, venues and bars. The duo performed a variety of their own original songs, as well as a few covers of some well-known songs. Some of their original songs include “She Walks Away,” “Proud,” “No One Else,” and a brand new song not yet recorded, titled “Chicago.”
The brothers got really creative combining the Goo Goo Dolls’ “Iris,” “Habits” by Tove Lo, and “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” by Marvin Gaye into one continuous song and had some of the audience members singing along with them. The brothers even played some covers of “Girl Crush” by Little Big Town and “Super Bass” by Nicki Minaj. “There’s so many things that inspire us,” Ty said. “We grew up listening to music and just loving it and there’s a lot of really great song writers that really inspire us over the years.” Ty said they write their songs a lot about love and relationships, and their family gives them inspiration as well.
“Ultimately, it’s about life’s experiences and emotions and just trying to bottle those up into a song.” -Trey Turner member of The Icarus Account
“Everyday you feel something new,” Trey said. “Writing is just trying to express whatever you’re feeling. Ultimately it’s about life’s experiences and emotions and just trying to bottle those up into a song.” Audrey Rex, a freshman chemistry major, said she heard from a previous UB event, that the band was scheduled to perform on campus; she and her friend were excited. Though she had never before seen them live, she had been following them on Instagram and Twitter for months. “I really like their style and all the instru-
ments they play,” Rex said. “I listened to them for four hours today while I was studying.” Other non-musical aspects about the band include their comical segues. Rex said this part of the performance made her like the band even more. “I didn’t think they would actually make me really laugh, but they did,” Rex said who could not stop giggling when addressed by the duo during their performance. Patrick Davis, the UB mainstage coordinator, said he thought the show was great. “Tonight was awesome,” Davis said. “Icarus Account was really dope. I really dig them.” Davis said he would probably go out and buy their album, and he could not be more excited about the performance. “For the first turnout, I’m pretty pleased with it,” Davis said. “We’re in a very intimate setting so I felt like the aura was really good, especially for their genre of music.” Davis said there was great crowd participation during the show and there was not a dull moment in the show. The brothers said if they had to choose between playing on YouTube or playing live, they enjoy playing live more. “When it’s live, number one you’re performing and you can tell how much talent the people do or don’t have,” Trey said. “Number two, it’s not a marketing game. You have to be very strategic about what covers you put on YouTube, how the shots and angles are done, and live, it’s raw.” Ty said he likes the intimacy of a smaller audience when performing live. Molly Dotson contributed to this article. Luis Martinez can be reached at 581-2812 or lpmartinez@eiu.edu.